Network meeting
27th May2011
1. Assessment,
tracking and
intervention
3. Provision
for developing
wider outcomes
2. Structured
conversations
with parents
Children and
young people
Achievement for All Network
•AfA National & Local Update
•Data collection Summer 2011
•Main themes for term 6
•Pupil forums
•Summer conference
•Next Steps: Conferences, Case studies,website
•AOB
MMU – Interim Report May 2011
•Noticeable improvements were made across the AfA cohort in both Englishand Maths.
•Pupils in Years 5 and 10 made significantly better progress in English thanpupils with SEND nationally during the first year of the project, and Year 5pupils made significantly better progress in English than pupils withoutSEND nationally.
•Pupils in Years 5, 7 and 10 made significantly better progress in Maths thanpupils with SEND nationally.
•Pupils at School Action Plus, and those with HI, VI, BESD and SPLD, mademore progress than other pupils in the cohort.
•Males made more progress in Maths than females, and the reverse wastrue for English.
•Overall, more progress was made in English than in Maths
MMU – Interim Report May 2011 cont......
•Data is being put to a variety of uses to inform provision andpromote positive outcomes
•The conversations
a more holistic view of pupils,
a culture shift in parental engagement, and
have been effective in building a genuine partnership.
•Parents feel more included in the process of their children’seducation, more empowered.
•There have also been cases of improved pupil attendance,attributable to a refocus on the pupil themselves and strategiesdevised to promote enjoyment of school.
Local and National update
•Impetus remaining for the pilot
•Planning to work with the group that areawarded AfA
•Oldham – possibly a Lead LA for AfA
Data Collection
•Deadline to be early July – Date to be advised
•Data for all years to be current teacherassessments (except Y11)
•Year 6 will need to be sub-level grades – TAnot Test
•Year 11 – Final Predicted GCSE Grade(converted to NC level)
•Placed into the SSAT site
Term 6 Visits
Points for discussion
•At this stage what are the Key points to gatherfrom schools? (Impact measures aside)
•Specific, evidence rich & practical
•What Evidence towards IM achievement?
So what!! – Term 6 prompts
•Specific case study opportunity,
•What’s the pilot taught you?
•What have you found to be effective in raising the 3A’s?
•What would you pass onto other schools?
•Main barriers?
•Are the schools able/willing to support the roll out? If so how?
•What’s made the difference?
•What is your biggest message to other schools? to the staff inyour school? to the government?
•What would you not have missed for the world?
•What will you not miss?
•5 why’s (So what’s) to impact
So what’s!
•Raised attainment above predicted levels
•So what caused that?
–Improved interventions
–So what caused that?
•Changing the interventions on offer.
»So what caused that?
–Better use if data available.
•So what caused that?
- Developing use of APP in the classrooms
•So what caused that?
- Specific SMT decision to implementAPP!
Points to consider from visits
•Do Structured Conversation reports includeidentifiable action points for parents?
•How are you communicating with parents inbetween conversations? – do you activelycontact them – text, e-mail or face to face?
•Consider whether children are on track toexceed or meet targets where they may notpreviously have been?
•Considered how you will sustain the AfAPrincipals?
Pupil Forums
•Opportunity for schools to discuss with pupilstheir opinions of AfA
•WWW – EBI
•Held before 17th June and information fedback to LA PL by 20th June
•Pupil Case study – Small vignette about theimpact of AfA on the child and theiroutcomes. By 20th June
Summer Conference
•5th July
•Focus points/Structure?
•Impact of Achievement for All in schools Sessionled by school project leaders
•Sharing strategiesChoice of 4 separate school led workshops:
- Assessment, tracking and interventions
- Structured Conversations/Parental engagement
- Improving wider outcomes- Leadership of AfA
Moving forward
•Big push for the final term
•Oldham NW Launch – Tuesday 5th July – CPD
•Opening up the website – Case Studiesavailable to all viewers (Contact me if you want yours removing)
•5 SPLs to support final term visits
•15 – 17 June – NCSL – Seizing Success –Birmingham
•30th June – NLE conference Warwick
Term 6 AfA Questionnaire – due in Friday 25th June
AfA Summer term data – due to be uploaded to theSSET website by mid July
Pupil Forum report – forums to be completed by17th June report due in by Monday 20th June
Structured Conversation running record sheet –due in Friday 15th July
Spring Term 2011 Case Study – due in by Thursday28th April
Deadlines
AOBNext meeting 28th June